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Cal Poly SWE received first place in the 2014-2015 Team Tech competition sponsored by Boeing. The title and $5000 prize were announced at SWE's National Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. During the conference, Cal Poly SWE received the Outstanding Collegiate Section Gold Award (for the fifth year in a row!) and the Boeing Multicultural Award. Two Cal Poly SWE alumnae were also honored for their various contributions to engineering.

780 million people lack access to clean water; approximately 1 in 9 people. Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related illness. Lack of sanitation is the world's leading cause of infection.

In December 2015, Cal Poly's Engineers Without Borders sent 17 engineering students abroad to work on several ongoing projects in India, Thailand, Nicaragua, and Malawi. EWB's Thailand team spent three weeks in Thailand performing water quality testing on previously implemented filters and assessing for an energy project.

From left: Kimberly Pugel (ENVE), Michallynn Hoffman (IE), Stefania Beauchamp (SE), Abigail Nial (MATE) showing the water quality trays from the team's previously implemented slow sand filters. The yellow trays are positive for fecal coliforms before the filters and the clear trays are clean from after the filters.

Students taking drinking water samples with some of the kids from the community of Maejantai.

Stefania Beauchamp double checking field notes with one of the boys from Maejantai